The Great Forum Timeline: Reference for Events of Note

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:02 pm

A timeline of important events on the wiki. I gonna need help with this, so tell me about any event you think is important. This is obviously incomplete. Important events include: awards ceremonies, mod/admin inductions, forum upgrades/changes, rule changes, etc.

2004
May:
8: Forum is created; JoeyDay and Tom join.
9: Stu and Lunar Jesty join.
10: Forum rules released. Interruptor Jones joins.

June:
22: StrongRad joins.

July:
4: furrykef joins.

August:

September:
7: ramrod joins.

October:

November:
24: IantheGecko joins.

December:
30: It's Dot Com joins.

2005
Jan:
16: ed "lim" smilde joins.

Feb:

Mar:

Apr:
8: Rules limiting avatar and signature size are instated
17: Acekirby joins.

May:

Jun:
10: BazookaJoe joins.
Mid-June: Necromancer plagues the forum

Jul:
5: Ju Ju Master joins.

Aug:

Sep:
Arts and Crafts board created

Oct:
10: The Wiki Decision Polls section of the forum is locked
22: Clan rHrN joins the forum

Nov:

Dec:

2006
Jan:
8: Usernames become permanent

Feb:
20: Capt. Ido Nos joins.

Mar:

Apr:
4: Hey Guys creates the first Random Thoughts and Ideas
Flagstaff and Elite Hacks flood the forum with grotesque images

May:

Jun:

Jul:
17: InverseTiger joins.

Aug:
31: PWNDay

Sep:

Oct:

Nov:

Dec:

2007
Jan:

Feb:

Mar:

Apr:

May:

Jun:

Jul:
29: Mods added

Aug:
17: Jello B, in what becomes known as The Purge, deletes many threads by hacking into ModestlyHotGirl's account. Rules are changed slightly
29: A record-setting 288 users are on the forum at one time

Sep:

Oct:

Nov:
25: Choc-o-Lardiac-Arrest initiates the "Ladies and Gentlemen" reformation.

Dec:
New mods instated

2008
Jan:
5: Forum is upgraded from phpBB2 to phpBB3

Feb:

Mar:

Apr:

May:

Jun:

Jul:

Aug:

Sep:

Oct:

Nov:

Dec:

The Great Clapper · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:07 pm

Hmm, taking on a lot of big projects, don't overload yourself Quack. :-(

Well I guess you should add December 28th as the greatest day in the history of the forum seeing as how I joined. :mrgreen:

this-guy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:09 pm

I thought you were American…

Um… I don't know anything.

DS_Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:11 pm

I approve of this.

April 8, 2005: Rules limiting avatar and signature size go into effect.

Mid-June 2005: Necromancer plagues the Forum

October 22, 2005: Clan rHrN joins the Forum

Some time in late 2005/early 2006 September 2005: Arts and Crafts board is created

January 8, 2006: Users lost the ability to change their username

August 17, 2007: (to add to The Purge) The rules were revised slightly.

December 2007: Several new mods appointed; rules revised on the Forum.

January 5, 2008: The Forum is upgraded to phpBB3

Also look in the Disktionary for holiday information and some relative fad dates.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:20 pm

Thanks. Actually, I plan on linking certain events to their descriptions in the Disktionary one there are more events.

DS_Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:21 pm

The only problem is that you can't link to specific entries in the Disktionary.

Okay, since Forum information is becoming all the rage now, I propose that somebody makes that Member Update system I was talking about.

EDIT: Oh, and you may want to change the BB Code around some to make it a bit "cleaner". Maybe make the years larger/a different color, the months at slightly greater size, and the dates bold. That makes it easier to spot the plain-text entries.

IantheGecko · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:26 pm

You should put this on the forum wiki, too.

BTW, July 29, 2007=mods added.

The Noid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:41 pm

PWNDay was in August, definately. The 31st, Teff's forumday.

ramrod · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:53 pm

LordQuackingstick wrote:

September:
07: ramrod graces the forum with his presence.

Fixed.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:00 am

For the record, I am only going to add the joining dates of important people: Clan, due to his, er... clannyness, and mods and admins.

Rusty · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:46 am

We should add the Ladies and Gentlemen Reformation there.

Rusty · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:49 am

When Me, Cola, and Teff got banned and Cola was all OH HELL NO so he, and eventually me, made fake accounts to try to convince the administration to change their ways.

Basically the reason I'm still here.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:26 am

I would appreciate it if all mods and admins gave me the date they joined and the date they became mod/admin.

Color Printer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:58 am

LordQuackingstick wrote:

I would appreciate it if all mods and admins gave me the date they joined and the date they became mod/admin.

There's an awesome thing: It's called "Joined:".

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:59 am

Yes, but it don't tell me when they became modmins.

Strong Josh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:04 am

Podstars made available: January 20, 2007?

The Snork · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:07 am

That's not a forum event, it's an event within the main site upon which HRWF is based. Therefore, it doesn't deserve to be included at all.

Strong Josh · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:50 am

The Snork wrote:

That's not a forum event, it's an event within the main site upon which HRWF is based. Therefore, it doesn't deserve to be included at all.

Nay! Look in the general forum, my friend. What was lost is now found!

The Noid · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:52 am

That event has nothing to do with the history of the forum, though.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:54 pm

DS_Kid wrote:

Okay, since Forum information is becoming all the rage now, I propose that somebody makes that Member Update system I was talking about.

I call this metaforuming.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:57 am

All right, I've added the join date of every mod, but I'd still like the dates they became mods.

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:57 pm

January 15, 2008 Kevin DuBrow returns to the forum after almost 1 1/2 years absence.

You don't have to put it, but I just think it'd be cool.

LordQuackingstick · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:23 am

I really can't. Otherwise I'd have to do that for everybody.

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:39 am

LordQuackingstick wrote:

I really can't. Otherwise I'd have to do that for everybody.

That's cool. NBD

The Great Clapper · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:57 am

LordQuackingstick wrote:

For the record, I am only going to add the joining dates of important people: Clan, due to his, er... clannyness, and mods and admins.

And what did Clan do that was so important?

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:59 am

The Great Clapper wrote:

LordQuackingstick wrote:

For the record, I am only going to add the joining dates of important people: Clan, due to his, er... clannyness, and mods and admins.

And what did Clan do that was so important?

Clan wasn't really as important as he was annoying. Clan rHrN is the perfect example of why some wildlife eat their young.

The Great Clapper · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:02 am

Kevin DuBrow wrote:

The Great Clapper wrote:

LordQuackingstick wrote:

For the record, I am only going to add the joining dates of important people: Clan, due to his, er... clannyness, and mods and admins.

And what did Clan do that was so important?

Clan wasn't really as important as he was annoying. Clan rHrN is the perfect example of why some wildlife eat their young.

I don't understand, if you were to list one annoying user, why not all of them?

No one in 4 years has gone to the same level of irritation of other users as thei Clan fellow has supposedly did?

Kevin DuBrow · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:08 am

Yup. No one. Clan came on here and the first day he was here, he started about 10 threads, all about Hillary Duff and the Chaos Emeralds, and in general just angered everyone with his threats to "tell JoeyDay on you." He "threatened" Strong Rad several times as I recall. He was basically for lack of a better word...attention-whore.

You just had to be here.

DS_Kid · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:18 am

Plus, he didn't get banned until nearly halfway through the next year, when the returning Seethroo got pretty angry at him really quick.

While I can't think of any other additions at the time, you really should try and adjust the layout when you have the chance. Bolding and sizing different parts of the timeline would definitely make it easier to read.

The Great Clapper · **Posted:** Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:27 am

Meh, I dunno, just seems contradicting when one way you want to note the joining dates of the users who do good and also list those who do bad.

I know it is certainly not my place to talk, but, isn't it for the better simply to forget the banned?

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